This is episode 32, “If There's an Argument for Medicare for All That Ought to Convince Everyone, It's This Epidemic.”
My guest, David Himmelstein, MD, is a Distinguished Professor of public health and health policy in the CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College.
Dr. Himmelstein is a co-founder of Physicians for a National Health Program. He has authored or coauthored more than 100 journal articles and three books, and is a top expert on the waste and abuse of our current health care system.
Do not miss this episode as Dr. Himmelstein describes the United States’ devastating response to the coronavirus pandemic and how a single-payer Medicare for All system would help.
Episode 32 Transcript
The Tremendous Good a Publicly Sponsored Insurance System Can Do
Plain Economics: The Main Problem With Rural Health Care
Retrospective Denials
Racial Inequities in Health Care
Stop Using Health Insurance Industry Language
Surprise Medical Bills
Insurance Companies Are Practicing Medicine, And They Are Doing It in a Way That If a Doctor Did That, They Would Absolutely Lose Their License
Why Drug Prices Are So Expensive in the United States
The Average Family Is Going to Get Much More and Pay Much Less
Mothers for Medicare for All – Part 2
Mothers for Medicare for All - Part 1
Dealing with HIV
How Do We Meet the Needs of People Who Need Mental Health Services? Poorly!
We Can’t Truly Help People in This For-Profit System
Every Shift I Would See Patients Struggling for Their Care
A Different Kind of Going Broke
A Revelation
Health Care In Rural America
We’ll Win by Building a Grassroots Movement
When You’ve Got a For-Profit System, True Care Goes Out the Window
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